A nice fall weather day, so the boy and I decided to push the chassis outside and let it get some sun and start to scrape, chisel, soak, wire brush and sweep away 50 some odd years of dried mud, dust, dirt, rust and grease from the inside of the frame rails, covering the transfer case and T-90, from the surface of the skid plate and generally everywhere. A bit of elbow grease and Simple Green allowed to soak in for 15, 20 minutes and it started coming off. The grease, mud combo formed at the very least, a sort of waterproof barrier from rust. It was a solid coating that wouldn't come off without the gentle pryings from a screwdriver, cold chisel and the wire brush.
A few before pictures. The water proofing "jacket" of grease was about 1/2" to 3/4" thick.
A closer view of the transfer case and transmission. The shape of each is completely obscured. The blob of grease is from trying to shoot some grease into the fitting to get the xfer levers to shift smoother.
A large chunk of the grease/ dirt.
Lookit that, it really IS a T90 hiding under there!
It formed a pretty good pile underneath.
Some cleaner shots. You can tell that it isn't just some amorphous hunk of clay in between the rails.
The total pile probably weighed a good 8-10 pounds!
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